Mr. Nakano (D1) has been certified as an IPA Mito Super Creator in 2019. Congratulations! Project Title: Design of food experience in VR space IPA Mito HP: https://www.ipa.go.jp/jinzai/mitou/2019/20200528.html Creator Introduction: https://www.ipa.go.jp/files/000082593.pdf

8 M1 students have joined CARE Lab this spring! Uno Takuma Kato Taiki Kono Mayuka Baba Takeru Fukuda Akihisa Fukumoto Naoya Yoshimitsu Masahiro Yoshimura Kazuma

Mr. Higashi (M1) has taken an oversea internship at one of the most renowned research institute on AR, HIT Lab NZ of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand from February 5th to March 13th, 2020. He studied on synchronizing More …

Mr. Nakano and Mr. Koshi gave a presentation at Interaction 2020 on March 9th, 10th, 11th, 2020. Detail: http://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2020/data/bib/INT20012.html Paper: http://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2020/data/pdf/INT20012.pdf Introduction movie: http://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2020/data/movie/INT20012.mp4 HP: https://www.interaction-ipsj.org/2020/

We held a farewell party for graduating students.

We had Open Campus on February 22, 2020, and introduced our laboratory and demonstrated our research to so many visitors. Thank you for very much for coming!

On December 23rd, 2019, we held and enjoyed an year-end party at Osakana Stand Yuji Fuse. Only laboratory has only three years’ of history, but many new students have joined us and the party was so lively this year.

Mr. Kawabe, Mr. Hasegawa, and Mr. Higashi (all M1) gave a presentation at Ubiquitous Wearable Workshop (UWW) 2019 on December 20th and 21st, 2019.

IPSJ Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing was held on December 13, 2019 at NAIST. From our laboratory, Mr. Kawabe, Mr. Kitayama. and Mr. Shikanai gave an oral presentation. In addition, Mr. Ito, Mr. Hasegawa, Mr. Higashi, and Mr. Yokomi More …

We took a lab trip to Gifu from October 26th to 28th, 2019. We went to the world-heritage Shirakawa-go village and saw the sea of clouds, etc.

Mr. Yan and Mr. Nakano gave an oral presentation at the top conference on AR/MR research, the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2019 in Beijing, China. Mr. Yan’s presentation at the doctoral consortium was entitled “Design More …

Mr. Saito (M2) gave a presentation at a workshop of MVE (Media Experience / Virtual Environement) of IEICE (the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers).

Mr. Hagimori (M2) gave a presentation on “Combining Tendon Vibration and Visual Stimulation Enhances Kinesthetic Illusions” at Cyberworlds 2019 in Kyoto.

Following five students have joined our laboratory from October, 2019. Welcome! Yang Zhengchang (M1) Hu Xiaodan (M1) Chotchaicharin Setthawut (M1) Raphaël Verret (Intern) Bastien Germain (Intern)

Mr. Yokomi (M1) gave an oral and poster presentations at the VRSJ Annual Conference which was held from September 11th to 13th, 2019.

Mr. Saito (M2) gave a presentation on “Roughness Perception in an Encountered Haptic Interface Using Drone” at an Interactive Session at IEEE World Haptics Conference on July 12th, 2019.

Delegation from the Malaysian Ministry of Education visited our laboratory.

Three M1 student groups developed and published web-based VR navigation applications for Open Campus spending one week. You can try them from Access in the menu.

Kizashi Nakano (M1) has been accepted to IPA Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (Mitou Project). https://www.ipa.go.jp/jinzai/mitou/2019/koubokekka_index.html (in Japanese)

We had Open Campus on May 18th, 2019. We introduced our research and demonstrated our systems to many visitors. Thank you very much!

Our collaborative research with Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Otago, Osaka University, and Wakayama University on a new optical see-through near-eye display has been featured by Japanese online media. This system shows a virtual image not by adding light More …

Naoya Isoyama Joined our laboratory as Assistant Professor as of 1st April.

Below the paper win “Best Paper Runner-up Award”. The paper will appear in IEEE Xplorer. Speech-Driven Facial Animation by LSTM-RNN for Communication Use Ryosuke Nishimura, Nobuchika Sakata, Tomu Tominaga, Yoshinori Hijikata, Kensuke Harada, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa

Mr. Koshi present “Augmented Concentration: Visual Noise Reduction for Improving Concentration  with a Video See-Through HMD” as a poster paper at APMAR2019.

Prof. Kiyokawa and his organizing team has successfully organized IEEE VR 2019, the top conference on virtual reality and 3D user interfaces, from March 23 to 27, 2019 at Osaka International Convention Center. A record number of 1200+ people have More …

We have presented 2 TVCG Papers, 4 Posters and 2 Research Demos at IEEE VR2019!! TVCG Papers Light Attenuation Display: Subtractive See-Through Near-Eye Display via Spatial Color Filtering, Yuta Itoh, Tobias Langlotz, Daisuke Iwai, Toshiyuki Amano, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa The More …

Our collaborative research with the University of Electro-Communications and the University of Tokyo on a gustatory manipulation AR system has been featured by several Japanese online media. This system is to induce gustatory illusions by changing food appearance by a More …

On 18th January 2019, a M1 student, Masaki Koshiki, has made a poster presentation entitled “Improving Concentration by Visual Noise Reduction with a Video See-Through HMD” at SIG-MR in Kyoto.  

We were going to Second Lab trip, even as day trip. The site was Kyoto. It is slightly strange experiment to go with close sightseeing place.

On 25th December, we have hold Year-end party of 2018 at Gyuukaku yakiniku restaurant. All people have fun without any business.